Kaiser Health News
The Platte County, Wyoming, visitor center and Chamber of Commerce are on the southern edge of Wheatland, an agricultural town in the High Plains known for its proximity to good fishing spots. Thirteen residents of the county have died of COVID-19, according to the state health department.
Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN
WHEATLAND, Wyo. — Brandon Graves said COVID-19 arrived in Wheatland the way new movies do in this High Plains farming town: months after hitting the big cities and without much fanfare.
“It kind of trickled in and it never really exploded here,” said Graves, a lifelong resident and mayor of the town of about 3,500, the largest in Platte County.